Resume

Early Life & Education:

• 1967: Born & raised in Tokyo
• 1986: Graduated from Oin High School in Tokyo
• 1987-1988: Studied sculpture at Tama Art University in Tokyo
• 1995-1998: Majored in history and minored in music at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with highest honors
• 1998-1999: Pursued graduate studies in comparative history at the University of California, Berkeley

Exhibitions:

• 2009: Arts & Crafts in the Pacific Northwest, Museum of History and Industry
• 2013: Group exhibition at Albany Arts Gallery
• 2014: Ink This!, Tacoma Art Museum
• 2017: Solo show at Roycroft Campus Copper Shop Gallery
• 2017: Solo show at Brooke Dental Studio
• 2017: Group exhibition at Childhood's End Gallery
• 2018: Solo exhibition at Pierce College Art Gallery
• 2020: Solo/group show at University of Puget Sound, Collins Library

Art Commissions:

• 1999-2002: Peet's Coffee & Tea: corporate marketing and 12 mug designs
• 1997-2005: Poster designs for Grove Park Inn Arts & Crafts Conference
• 2001: Disney Grand Californian Hotel (Anaheim, CA)
• 2002: Torrey Pines Lodge (La Jolla, CA): logo design
• 2007: The Gamble House (Pasadena, CA): Centennial poster design
• 2008: Craftsman Farms (Morris Plains, NJ): Centennial poster design
• 2012: Patagonia: Book illustration for Paddling North
• 2015: Disney Grand Californian Hotel (Anaheim, CA)
• 2017: Hotel Green Project (Pasadena, CA)
• 2018: Patagonia: Book illustration for Paddling My Own Canoe

Books & Articles by Yoshiko Yamamoto

• Early 1990s: Series of articles on the “Arts & Crafts Movement in America” for the Japanese publication, Woody Senka
• 1996: Beautiful Necessity: Decorating with Arts & Crafts, Gibbs Smith Publisher, co-authored with Bruce Smith & Yoshiko Yamamoto
• 1999: Arts & Crafts Ideals, 1999, compiled by Bruce Smith & Yoshiko Yamamoto
• 2001: Japanese Bath, 2001, Gibbs Smith Publisher, co-authored by Bruce Smith & Yoshiko Yamamoto
• 2020: Article titled "The Art & Craft of Printing: Our 25-year Journey" in Useful & Beautiful, the Journal of William Morris Studies

Media Features & Appearance

• 2003: Featured in Old House Journal magazine
• 2009: Featured in Art of the West magazine
• 2011: Article on the "Japanese Earthquake Relief Fund" in the Berkeley Daily Planet, highlighting Yoshiko's fundraising efforts for tsunami victims
• 2015: Featured in the summer issue of American Bungalow magazine
• 2015: Winter: Appeared in the PBS documentary series Craft in America
• 2016: Featured in the City of Tacoma TV series artTown: Artist & Place
• 2016: Spotlighted in the City of Tacoma's Spaceworks program
• 2018: Article titled "The Artist Behind Seattle's 'From Hiroshima to Hope'" in the International Examiner, Seattle

Workshops & Talks

• 1997: Workshop and talk at the Asilomar Arts & Crafts Conference
• 2010: "Artist as Entrepreneurs" artist talk at Millikin University, Illinois
• 2014: "Blockprinting Process" artist talk at Ikebana, Tacoma Chapter, Tacoma, WA
• 2015: "Blockprinting at The Arts & Crafts Press" artist talk at the Sister-City Film Festival, Tacoma, WA
• 2016: "Blockprinting" workshop at the School of Visual Concepts, Seattle
• 2016: "Blockprinting" workshop at Cornell University Johnson Museum of Art
• 2017: "Blockprinting" workshop at the Pasadena Museum of California Art
• 2020-Present: "William Morris & Our 25-Year Journey" artist talk presented at the MLA Convention in Seattle, WA
• November 2021: "William Morris & Our 25-Year Journey," a video talk for the William Morris Symposium in London, UK
• February 2023: Keynote talk "Why William Morris Today? Art, Craft, and the Pursuit of Happiness" at the 2023 Arts & Crafts Conference at Grove Park Inn

Licensing & Collaborations:

• Patagonia Books
• Motawi Tiles
• Trader Jo’s
• Rizzoli International
• Liberty Graphics
• Design House Greetings
• Sugarhouse Greetings